By TONY SWINDELL, CounterPunch.org, 5/4/06
In Iraq, our descent into hell, our
“Apocalypse Now” moment, has begun. First there was
Gitmo, then the global rendition program, then Abu Ghraib, then
the pulverizing of Fallujah, and now trigger-happy raids that
are filling multitudes of sandy graves with men, women and children.
Has “Kill ’em all and let God sort ’em out” become
the mission in Babylon? Can’t anyone remember Vietnam, where
we left behind more than a million dead civilians? In Iraq, we’ve
way past the half-million mark, probably the million mark, if
you count the 1990s sanctions. Are the American people as blind
and deaf as they seem? Don’t we see ourselves walking through
the gates of hell and can’t we hear the doors clanging shut on
our country? [read more]